Community members across El Paso today are holding a number of events, including a bell toll ceremony, an El Paso Museum of Art altar creation, and blood drive, in memory of the 23 people who lost their lives due to white nationalist rhetoric at an El Paso Walmart four...
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Washington, DC – The Houston Chronicle reported yesterday that Texas has started to separate families at the border over the past month: “Since the early days of Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative, state troopers arresting migrants along the Rio Grande have been told to keep families together and...
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English Dallas Morning News How, years later, the El Paso Walmart shooting still affects victims, immigrants By Allie Kelly August 02, 2023 AZ Mirror More than 100 advocacy groups urge Congress to denounce anti-immigrant rhetoric By Ariana Figueroa August 02, 2023 KERA News Democrats and advocacy groups warn of...
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Massachusetts is poised to expand higher education access for young undocumented immigrants who call the commonwealth home. Included in the state’s budget for 2024 is a proposal broadening the number of local Dreamers who can qualify for in-state tuition rates at Massachusetts public and private universities. Currently, only beneficiaries...
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New sign-on letter from more than 160 organizations calls on congressional leadership “to unequivocally denounce white supremacist, anti-immigrant rhetoric and its use by Members of Congress” — Read the new letter HERE Access an audio recording of today’s press call HERE Washington, DC — On a press call held...
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Vanessa Cárdenas: “Una gran mayoría de estadounidenses quiere soluciones con visión de futuro en inmigración que sean consistentes con los valores nacionales que más nos honran” Washington, DC – Tras la sentencia a muerte del responsable de la matanza en la sinagoga Tree of Life en Pittsburgh en 2018,...
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Washington, DC – Following the sentencing of the Pittsburgh Tree of Life shooter and ahead of tomorrow’s fourth anniversary of the anti-immigrant terrorist attack in El Paso, TX that killed 23 people on August 3, 2019, America’s Voice Executive Director Vanessa Cárdenas issued the following statement: “Instead of generating...
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Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings and David Torres from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week: The lack of immigration reform at the legislative level limits the mechanisms through which people can...
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Thursday, August 3, 2023, will mark four years since a man from Allen, Texas, drove hundreds of miles to a Walmart in El Paso and murdered 23 people and injured 22 others, subscribing to false white nationalist conspiracy theories about a supposed “great replacement” and a “Hispanic invasion.” In...
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English AP News Democratic lawmakers slam the lack of attorney access for asylum seekers in Border Patrol custody By Associated Press August 01, 2023 The Washington Post Border arrests surged in July, a blow to Biden migration plan By Nick Miroff and Maria Sacchetti August 01, 2023 CBS News...
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